The Hot Dog Diet – Is it Healthy and Does it Work?

Have you heard of the Hot Dog Diet? I don’t even know where it came from, but I have friends that swear by it. If you haven’t heard of it, it is one of those part-time diets that has you eating hot dogs one day, tuna the next, and eggs on the third day. It is a 3 day diet you move on and off over the course of a few weeks that claims to help you lose as much as 30 pounds in 40 days. So, if that’s true, can it be healthy and does it work?

Like almost every fad diet, it is severely lacking in nutritional balance. Hot dogs, cheese, eggs, saltine crackers, an apple, tuna, peanut butter, vanilla ice cream… very little of fruits and veggies. I suppose supplements can get you by for short time, but the problem with this diet is that when people start seeing results, they tend to break the rules. Obviously, sticking to a diet like this for an extended period of time is not going to be recommended doctors and nutritionists — common sense should tell you that. Occasionally, desperate people take desperate measures. When you don’t follow the rules, you could end up being hospitalized for malnutrition if you do it for too long (yes, it has happened).

All the health issues aside, people are still determined to lose weight quickly, and will usually try anything. So, does it work? I tried it. It does work, but I couldn’t stick with it long enough to achieve the results I needed. The food was bland an unsatisfying to me, and I really don’t like peanut butter or vanilla ice cream. This left me feeling like I really needed to fill a void on my days off from the diet. My “four days off” period tended to be a little counterproductive, and this is where the diet won’t work for some people. It’s not that it won’t get your metabolism going, or that the system won’t help you lose weight quickly, because it can. It’s just that some people just can’t do the part time diet without overdoing the days off, and I guess I’m one of them.

The result for me was, I did this diet for 2 weeks and got bored. I lost 4 pounds, but I really wasn’t committed after my second round of hot dogs, eggs and tuna. Maybe it can work for you.

Source by Coleen Watson

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